Guest Posted April 28, 2004 Posted April 28, 2004 Doing my planning for nect week and one of this weeks objectives from the NNS is to talk about and recreate symmetrical patterns in the environment and other cultures Things i have done in the past are the butterly folding in half paintings, symmetrical shape patterns with 2d and 3d shapes but i am getting bored with these - so the kids must be Any one any fresh ideas that i can add in? Thnak You Sarah
JacquieL Posted April 28, 2004 Posted April 28, 2004 Draw half a house or a face or a butterlfy or flower and let the children make the other half the same. they then have to use colours that match as well to draw or colour in features.
Beau Posted April 28, 2004 Posted April 28, 2004 I'm not a teacher but this is a site with some lovely butterfly pictures http://butterflywebsite.com/gallery/index.cfm I guess you could look at symmetry around us in patterns on walls, floors, fabrics etc. Even things like car wheels, pizza, my computer speakers, the glass my wine is in ( ), ornaments - goodness, its everywhere!!
Guest Posted April 29, 2004 Posted April 29, 2004 Similar to JacquieL's idea of half pictures, why not collect some leaves, cut in half, use a mirror to make them "whole" and then invite the children to draw the other half. Jean
Lorna Posted April 29, 2004 Posted April 29, 2004 A nice idea for repeating patterns is to make caterpillar bookmarks. I cut out loads of circles 2p size out of felt and the children glued them together to make a bookmark. Thet really enjoyed it. You could do pattern matching.... take photo of a natural pattern and get the children to find where it is from. Or crating their own wrpping paper using sponges and paint. Lorna
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